Category: Book Reviews

Speaking to the The Guardian as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 (a prize he later won), Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai said, “If there are readers who haven’t read my books, I couldn’t recommend anything to read to them; instead, I’d advise them to go out, sit down somewhere, perhaps by the

By Abby Dockter I am on another plane trip. Patchwork farms, webs of highways, wide rivers and furry green mountains, all pierced by the wing of the plane as we glide into a new port. That’s the outside—inside the plane are a middle-aged couple speaking soft Turkish and eating chocolate bars, a young man holding

Review by Sonora Review poetry reading board member, Peyton Prater Stark. In her first full-length book, Borrowed Wave, Rachel Moritz embodies so many of the dualities that poetry is somehow, at its best, able to embody. Recently out from Kore Press in Tucson, this book is at once confident and questioning, isolated and intimate. Through bare

Typically, I don’t like “dark” stories about suicide, drug addiction, or cancer because those themes are emotionally loaded. The work is already done for the writer. There’s also this false assumption that a lot of writers fall into, which is that dark things—suicide, drug addiction, cancer—are serious, and all serious things are profound. Having said

In the vein of Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, and Amelia Gray, Elizabeth Frankie Rollin’s debut collection The Sin Eater & Other Stories (Queen’s Ferry Press 2013) tight-ropes the line between domesticity and apocalypse. A wife allows the plague to infect her household, an adulterer hires a Sin Eater to absolve his guilt, a photographer captures